1. Principle of photocatalysis
1.1 Definition
Ethymologically, the term photocatalysis is derived from three Greek words: phôtos (light), kata (down or back) and lysis (dissolution or decomposition).
Photocatalysis is therefore the action of a substance called a "photocatalyst" which, under the action of light, increases the speed of a thermodynamically possible chemical reaction without intervening in the reaction's balance equation.
Nowadays, the term "photocatalysis" refers more specifically to "heterogeneous photocatalysis" in which the photocatalyst is a semiconductor (most often titanium dioxide, TiO 2 ), not a transition metal molecule or complex.
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Bibliography
Websites
Events
European Photocatalysis Days, JEP2009, Bordeaux,
http://www.photocatalysis-federation.eu/consult-the-archives.html
European Photocatalysis Days, JEP2011, Bordeaux,
http://www.photocatalysis-federation.eu/jep2011/
Standards and norms
AFNOR Test method for evaluating photocatalytic materials with respect to NOx degradation – Single-pass method in tangential mode AFNOR XP B44-011, December 2009
ISO: Test method for air purification- performance of semi-conducting materials- Part 1: removal of nitric oxide ISO/DIS 22197-2, 2007.
UNI: Determination of the catalytic degradation of nitrogen oxides in...
Regulations
Health and safety regulations: www.inrs.fr/inrs-pub/inrs01.nsf/IntranetObject-accesParReference/INRS-FR/$FILE/fset.html
Commission Directive 2009/161/EC of December 17, 2009 establishes a third list of 19 indicative occupational exposure limit values in application of Council Directive 98/24/EC and amending Directive 2000/39/EC. Member States have until December 18, 2011 to transpose this directive...
Patents
Method and reactor cell for the photooxidation of gases, WO99/24277.
Apparatus for photocatalytic fluid purification, US5790934.
Apparatus for photocatalytic fluid purification, US6063343.
Apparatus for photochemical reaction, JP55116433.
Air cleaning device, JP11342317.
Titanium dioxide photo-catalyzer,...
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http://www.photocal.fr/documentation/facades_autonettoyantes_photocatalyse.pdf...
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